divination

English

Etymology

From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• dice divination
• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• divinatory
• predivination

Translations

act of divining

• Bulgarian: предсказване (bg) n (predskazvane)
• Catalan: endevinació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卜筮 (zh) (bǔshì), 占卜 (zh) (zhānbǔ), (by use of the Eight Trigrams in Taoism) 卜卦 (zh) (bǔguà)

• Czech: věštba f, věštění (cs) n
• Ewe: afakaka
• Finnish: ennustaminen (fi)
• French: divination (fr) f
• Galician: adivinación (gl) f
• German: Wahrsagerei (de) f, Wahrsagen n
• Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía)

  Ancient: μαντεία f (manteía)

• Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
• Indonesian: ramal (id), tenung (id)
• Irish: fáistine f
• Italian: divinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 占い (ja) (uranai)
• Korean: 점(占) (ko) (jeom), 복점(卜占) (ko) (bokjeom)
• Latin: dīvīnātiō f
• Maori: niu
• Ottoman Turkish: كبزه (kebze)
• Polish: wróżba (pl) f, wróżenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: adivinhação (pt) f, divinação f
• Romanian: divinație (ro) f
• Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прорица́ние (ru) n (proricánije), предви́дение (ru) n (predvídenije)
• Spanish: adivinación (es) f, divinación (es) f
• Swahili: ramli (sw)
• Turkish: kehanet (tr), önbili

art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means

• Bulgarian: гадаене (bg) n (gadaene), врачуване n (vračuvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: selvännäkeminen, kaivonkatsominen
• Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía), μαντική (el) f (mantikí)

  Ancient: μαντεία f (manteía), μαντική f (mantikḗ)

• Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
• Irish: fáistine f
• Italian: oracolo (it) m, divinazione (it) f
• Latin: dīvīnātiō f
• Maori: niu, rata (mi)
• Ottoman Turkish: كبزه (kebze)
• Russian: гада́ние (ru) n (gadánije), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá)
• Spanish: divinidad (es) f
• Swahili: ramli (sw)

indication of future, prediction

• Bulgarian: прогноза (bg) f (prognoza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: ennustus (fi)
• Greek: προφητεία (el) f (profiteía)
• Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
• Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прогно́з (ru) m (prognóz)
• Spanish: divinidad (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} divinizare (ro) f

See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin dīvīnātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

Further reading

• “divination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner